ACADEMIC WEBSITES

Oxford Kafka Research Center
Aims to advance and co-ordinate research on Franz Kafka, and more generally on German-language and especially German-Jewish literature and culture in the period of Modernism. Within its vicinity the Bodleian Library, where many Kafka manuscripts are kept.

Princeton Kafka Network (PKN) (not a website)
Consortium, initiated in 2009 by Princeton University, in collaboration with Humboldt University (Berlin) and Oxford University (see above). ‘Particular emphasis will be placed on his literary and historical context, German-Jewish literature during his lifetime. We will examine not only the contributions which many disciplines of thought (psychology, sociology, medicine, theology, law) have made to the understanding of Kafka’s work, but also the many ways in which Kafka’s work has in turn enriched these disciplines.’ Director: Michael Jennings, Vice-Directors: Stanley Corngold and Joseph Vogl.

OTHER RELEVANT WEBSITES

Mauro Nervi’s The Kafka Project
Extensive site by Italian Kafka expert and fan. Offers complete German text of critical edition (available are now Kafka’s three novels, Betrachtung, Das Urteil, diaries and part of Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente I & II); also scanned manuscript of “Im Dom” from Der Proceß, and Italian translation of the same novel. A lot of downloadable articles on Kafka, also by outstanding Kafka scholars. Many links.
E-mail: mauronervi@tin.it

MUSEA, MONUMENTS, ETC..

Kafka quote on Twitter
Almost every day a Kafka quote in German and Dutch, chosen by Alexander van Kesteren, former board member of Kafka Circle, and Marieke van Ommeren.

Franz Kafka Museum
Museum in Prague on the East bank of the Vltava, near the Charles Bridge. In Czech, English and German.

Kafka Monument at Triesch
On Kafka monument in Triesch (also approachable through the website of Třešt’, its Czech name), a little town south-west of South-Bohemian Jihlava, where Kafka stayed with his uncle/physician Siegfried in 1900, 1902 and 1907 (and maybe more often).
The monument has been made by the sculptor Franstisek Häckel from Triesch. A beautiful, partly animated site. In Czech, English and German.